The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-16
Notes of the Stage.

| James O'Neil will present Monte Christie" al
the Grand next week
! Joseph Haworth could not make "Rosedale" a
| 60, and the season is closed.
Manager Harry Miner proposes to shortly dis.
band his ALLAN Dare" combination.
The Booth Barrett company WILL play to about
| $4,000 in the three weeks in Chicago.
Henry Irving. Ellen Terry and company have
sailed from Liverpool for this country.
Ethel Spraeue. the granddaughter of the late
Chief Justice Chase is going the stage.
Paulns. the favorite tenor singer of the Cafe
Cbantant, of Paris, has made fortune singing
''En Revenant de la Revue"
Jeffrey Hawley. stage name OF Hawley Chap
man. of Joseph Jefferson's company, has fallen
heir to half a million by the recent death of an
uncle.
The Municipal Council ct Vienna, learning Of
the extreme poverty of a niece of Mozart has
voted the munificent sum of six francs as
monthly pension.
Verona Jarbeau's new musical comedy "Star-
light" is a great success and SO is her starring
tour. She has at last succeeded in getting
some thing that suits her.
Wilson Barrett denies the report of a coutem.
plated marriage with Miss Eastlake. Mr. Bar
rett among other reasons, says, ''it would offend
the Queen, who sent me a very sympathetic
letter of coincidence after the recent death of
my wife"
M. d'Ennery. the whilom play wright and nov
elist, is seventy two years old. Although an
indefatigable worker-having produced over
200 works. to which he adds one feuilleton
daly-he now looks as young and as active as
if he were but thirty.
In the comic opera 1.-THE Smith Family
lately produced in Philadelphia. the fun is pro-
voked by the nishaps and adventures of the
Smiths a. their family reunion, while the seri-
portion of the play is the search of the
heroine for a lost father.
The ushers in the Detroit Opera house have
been uniformed in white flannel coats and caps,
with brass buttons, as under the full-dress sys-
tenn near-siehted old ladies were continually
Fostering dudes in swallow-tail coats and paste
board shirts to take their checks and show them
to their seats.
George II. Jessup and Horace Townsend. the
latter or the New York Tribune. have been
commissioned by Mrs. Langtry to write a play
for her on an historical subject. which she will
produce as soon as the run of 'As in Looking
glass" is ended. This may not be until next
season. but the play is to be delivered in De-
cember.
The Chicago City Council proposes to pass an
outside of the regular box-office. 1t provides
that any person buying ticket for the purpos
OF selling 1t again at higher price. or whoever
shall sell a ticket outside the regular box-ofice
shall be fined not less than $40 nor more than
$780, The citizens urging the passage of
this ordinance as great public boom
Marnell the great tortonist, has a new
act From the stage rises large rostrum,
cred with q carpet of green velvet, dotted with
beds of beautiful flowers. At one end of tho
rostrum appears "set" tree with paper-
covered
foliage. Marinelli, clad in a serpent dress, is
discovered in the branches of the tree, and
gradually descends, winding in and out the
branches until he reaches the rostrum, where
he concludes his miraculous feats.
It is related of Edwin Booth that when in
school under a private tutor. together with John
s. Clark, the two boys enacted recited with
appropriate gestures the quarrel scene between
Brutus and Cassius Both of the boys were
in their teens. and during the recital the elder
Booth is said to have entered the room unob-
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beardless son with keen relish. This was the
first time that the name of Edwin Booth was
ever associated with the character of Brutus,
a character which he has since made peculiarly
his own.